So I see there are many posts stating people having this issue, but there seems to be no real resolution, unless I missed it. I have a mix of workstations which at one point all had WinXP Pro installed on them. I have recently obtained a few new pc's that Win7Pro on them and have installed Win7Pro on a few others. I don't know if this has anything to do with it, or if helps someone figure it out, but I am having this issue with the WinXP Pro machines and the Win7 machines are being scanned correctly and able to show the configuration. If anyone has any more ideals, please let us know.

On the client machine in a command prompt do you get errors if you run gpresult

On your 2008 server that has the group policies in the group policy management console on the left down at the bottom is a group policy results, right click this and run the wizard against the machine and the user, this will show you what all policies are being applied to that machine and user and help you determine if one or more are trumping your firewall policy.

Some of the more often causes of this error include can no longer ping the device, bad DNS records (esp. reverse DNS), firewall blocking WMI connection or UAC blocking WMI connection. You can also get this message if the machine is not powered up.

Do you have the Windows firewall enabled on your XP machines? Do you manage your firewalls with group policy? Perhaps something is now not configured on the XP machines to allow Spiceworks to scan them.

Yes, Windows Firewall is enabled. It must be enabled via group policy as I cannot turn it off. Where do I look in SBS2008 for this? I know we have a Cisco ASA for a firewall so we shouldn't need the windows firewall.

So I changed this yesterday on SBS2008 so workstation firewalls should be disabled. I did the "gpupdate /force" and still today when I go into this machine and look at the firewall, it says Enabled. It is grayed out as well. Doesn't make sense to me.

On the client machine in a command prompt do you get errors if you run gpresult

On your 2008 server that has the group policies in the group policy management console on the left down at the bottom is a group policy results, right click this and run the wizard against the machine and the user, this will show you what all policies are being applied to that machine and user and help you determine if one or more are trumping your firewall policy.

-Jay

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